cd-r is the better choice. you want to make sure the cd is burned and finalized. it the car radio plays mp3's you can put a whole lot more music on the disk.

the only other way around is a clean install then you would deleted all partition and create one new partition.

you will have to use a 3rd party software like partition magic or acronis.

you can alway go for the refurbished drive, you have to make sure its the size that advertised, the correct file system and the drive integrity, which is going to be extemely difficult. you run a...

what program are you using to read the disk. you probably need to enable imapi within the program.

try changing the cable on the drive. and if you have both drives on one cable set one to slave and one to master.
Also try using one drive connected at a time to rule out a damaged drive.

You...

the new hard drive should come with a cd you can sue to accomplish this data transfer. or you can set up the new drive install an operating system then manually transfer your data. boot from the...

power off the pc, connect the drive then power up the pc if it's not recognized, try a different usb slot. and ensure the usb is ebabled in the BIOS

ok so you brother infected you pc. Restoring to a previous point will not help, the system volume is one of the main areas affected with worms and viruses. so when you do a restore you still have...

SCSI is used in server for a couple of reasons
they use less CPU power and you can use up to 16 on one card. hence the mass storage you get with a server. Not saying that SCSI is by far faster than...

yes you can, but anything over 8 would have to be on a WIDE scsi. and these cards cost a bit too

First of all scsi was designed for MAC, when they reffer to to supporting up to 16 devices they are referring to ZIp drive, Cdrom, Scanner,hard drive and so on, all chained together. internally or...

restart the pc with the flash drive already inserted. then right click on my computer and choose manage,then go to disk management, see if the drive show up there.

remove the jumper WITH THE POWER OFF,

A year ago what operating system was on the Hard drive. did you remove the jumper from the external hard drive

Maxtor 3200, is this the size or the drive, is the rive made into the external enclosure. did you get a cd with the drive ( you can use this to format the drive to fat32) personally i would not...

Did you get a CD with the Hard Drive, it should have a section to create floppy disk with the SATA drivers

when you get to the screen that show the raw partition, are you able to create a partition. ( Press C to create)if you can create one then you can move on to format it ( this should be with four...

yes teacher. LOL

Ok. so to fix this issue how about booting with the windows Xp cd and choose recover console and format the HDD. or use a utility disk to clean the HDD then install XP

I have it runnings at home and on a VM machine joined to a domain group. Maybe i have a different version. ( mine came with a 10key license)

There are numerous software you can try to recover your HDD
R-Studio (http://www.r-studio.com/)
Nucleus (http://www.nucleusdatarecovery.org/)
most work in demo mode to give you an idea how well...

really? did you try. It's as simple as going to system properties and got to computer name tab. rename the PC and type the name of the domain.

Then go to control panel and change the way users log...

why go through all the headache. why not just rename the PC and type the name of the domain it is to join, If it is using Static IP set those if not set to automatic DHCP.

and to add when you get in the bios let us know if the drive is detected.

Did you try the above step........ go the disk management


check you bios if you need to enable the USb ports...

there may be a problem with the port one shorts or low power for the drive, .....plug in the drive, right click my computer and select manage, under storage select disk management, see if the drive...

If you are using IDE connection set the 80G HDD to master with slave, and the 60G to slave, Install you operating system on the 80G, moving files between the 2 will not be as hard However, some...

does it show the correct size in the BIOS. if yo got a cd with the drive use it to set up the drive to run an operating system

try other sata slot,,,how many you have on your board

was the first HDD on a sata port, are you still using that old HDD

i hope you don't have any jumpers on the drive,

Follow mecbas suggestion and ensure that the sata ports are enables. then run the disk config from the cd that came with it. format the HDD and...

thats just hardware detection, all hardware will show up there does not mean its working properly. try load the drive by itself ( set the jumper to master) if the pc boots and tell you cannot find...

the reason for this is that windows cannot recognized the HDD basically the file system on the HDD is corrupt and windows cannot decide what type it is,........... AGAIN are you certain that the...

again what file system is on the HDD you are trying to look at

start the pc in safe mode let us know if you can see the drive

what file system is on the HDD and what opearting system are you running on your PC

check the jumper setting on the drive, one should be master the other master with slave or both should be set to cable select and put the master drive at the end of the cable and the slave on the...

the old IDE CD drive you had was it attached with a HDD set up as master and slave.

try using the maxtor cd that come wioth the drive, ( can also be down load and burn to cd) use it to check the drive, if the drive heads are damaged, (Which can happen in the DOA wipe) then you would...